I just recently purchased the 1TB version of this drive (Ecogreen F2). I am pleased to report that it is the best overall drive I've ever used, it is almost as fast as the 500gb single platter Seagate 7200.12 drive I use as a system drive and has better vibrational characteristics than the 640gb WD ...

Ok so I guess I'll post my result here as well. Right now I am running the stress test for my HD4770. Test Setup: I am using my HTPC rig as it is my most powerful and versatile setup I've got, GPU fan speeds are fixed at 30% (point of inaudibility from 1m) and 100% using Catalyst Control Center v9.3...

Just got my sample, I am excited to get started testing it.

Well I am short on words today, but I can honestly say awesome job on the build and I am jealous as all hell.

I should post my build sometime in the gallery, once it all comes together.

I'll help them test it out. I've got a 45 watt dual and a 95 watt triple core to find various results.


I've also got a couple graphics cards that would be more than happy to be guinea pigs.

I'd like to extend my gratitude for all the wonderful content that can be found on this website and within its community of devoted PC silencers. Congratulations on seven years of great works and here's to hoping for another seven years (at least) of wonderful new content and keeping noise makers ho...

Why not invert the ATX standard and then reinforce the videocard mounting mechanism. Then it would be a matter of placing the PCI (or PCI-e) slots below the main card(s) and then creating a mountable tower heatsink for GPU. Or instead of making a GPU "socket" just re-engineer the slot that is alread...

I agree with above posters, unless you are gunning to play crysis maxed out, you will not need anything above an HD4670 for your resolution. That card is the lowest wattage, but maybe not necessarily the best value for money in terms of performance. So you may want to factor that in. 9800GT/8800GT (...

Thanks for taking the time to answer all of these questions Jay T! The I've been following the Maui platform for quite a while now and I have been really intrigued by it. Right now, the only function it would give me is the D2 audio amp card on top of my existing setup, since I specifically found a ...

HD 3850 stock is only exception in noisy single slots... But doesn't Evga allow changing heatsink without voiding a warranty, then it would be good to simply get Accelero S1 and use it passively or put slow speed 120mm fan on it with zipties. I thought EVGA made a dual slot Akimbo cooler specifical...

From all of the initial impressions I have seen from reviewers, I am tempted to believe that the audio quality is fairly decent. So I would not quickly pass judgment that this is a low end platform for cheesy audio. What this looks like to me is an attempt at an elegant affordable solution to those ...

What about a USB solution like EVGA's UV Plus?

Might be easier and cheaper.

Another way to do it is to have a 780v motherboard from AMD and a single PCI-express graphics card. I know that this configuration can support four monitors.

I've got the Phenom II 710, and I think that it is in fact the stepping that can be unlocked, but i don't have the right motherboard to do it :(. So moot point. In any case, I have it paired with a 9800GT in a 780G based Gigabyte motherboard. The performance difference between this and the Phenom ba...

E8400 is a peice of work. I got mine to boot into windows at 4.75ghz on a DS3L P35 gigabyte board with an Ultra-120. 4.5ghz benchable. Those are some sick numbers with some sick temps, lol. Mine was voltage happy, it wouldn't clock past 3.33ghz on stock but when I really fed it, it would just keep g...

Hey alexh, For the most part, Antec NSK cases come with a pretty decent earthwatts (mostly by seasonic, some by delta). The thing is, if you do switch out to a new power supply, the cord from the atx power connector to the front VFD or LCD screen goes with it so you need to get an adapter from antec...

True that, Scythe Ninja Mini is the heatsink to use in an Antec Fusion, etc. case. Fits like it was designed for it. I own one and I can honestly say there is literally nothing better for the case.

It isn't necessary to have just above ambient temps. But in the same way, it isn't necessary to have an ultra quiet computer. It is just the way of a computer enthusiast to have the "best" (insert user changeable variable here). That would include temps, benchmarking speed, decibels, and even the ap...

She's intending to do medical simulations and other power-intensive tasks. By no means should a 5400RPM HDD ever touch that, it will maul the effectiveness of that multiple-grand computer. Perhaps as a program files drive it wouldn't perform as well, but for general storage there is no reason not t...

Temps are not terrible in the least. I'm running under 30c load with a nearly passive Ninja Mini, but that's because I'm using a 45w AMD BE-2400. I'm pretty obsessive about temps, which is why I'm nervous about my northbridge (780g) chip running too warm (bios says high 30's, speedfan says something...

Careful, a computer hobby can grow to be very expensive and take up a lot of space. But you have one leg up in that A) you enjoy silent computing so the noise won't be an annoyance and B) you are a girl so it's much less likely that you will have an angry girlfriend/wife to deal with when you consta...

Aris - that's like complaining about how crappy the per capita income in Colombia is compared with the US. You're comparing a relatively small company with the industry giant - I read somewhere that Intel's R+D spending is greater than AMD's entire earnings. Even if that figure is slightly wonky, t...

Wonderful news!

I've been looking forward to this set of processors since I first heard about them. AMD really needed to gain some price footing still and this is where they get it.

I will be even more excited when I start seeing some value priced low wattage parts.

You could get the Atom based ITX board and then give it a PCI graphics card, like the ATI 2400 PRO.

Should be sufficient for most uses.

There is a version called the HR-03 GTX designed specifically for the GTX 260 and GTX 280 cards.

Personally I'd pass on the aftermarket coolers for the 260. My two have never bothered me with their noise, and they really look good :lol: If I had cards with a partial shroud like ATi models and 8 and lower Nv, I'd find it worthwhile, but the full-shroud design manages to look and sound good at t...

Love what you've done so far, and also a bit jealous.

Cooler looks very similar to my good 'ol Ultra-120, but the heatpipes are not staggered.

Definitely looking forward to seeing what's down the line.

Are you going to use aftermarket coolers on the graphics card?

Hi, I guess I'm new to this thread but the premise interested me. I just recently helped a friend of mine pick components for a low end graphics workstation. I decided to have him go Nvidia due to their implementation of parallel computing on the GPU which may or may not be important as time goes on...

Socket 771 is pretty similar to Socket 775 so one could with slight or no modding get it to work, but who's gonna pay for that unless they have something it really works with guaranteed? I had a look at that heat sink... Duh it's only aluminium. I checked what else does Thermalright make... Duh the...

Ok, maybe not, but it could be a contender. A tower cooler with similar dimensions. Less pipes and surface area but more solid construction. As I remeber the HR-01 was beaten by the Ninja, but seemed to do better in a lower airflow environment. The smaller profile might also help it slip into those ...

I think the concept is sound but the execution is rather lacking as with so many other good ideas in any field. I think MikeC has it right on where the design is sorely lacking in heat dissipation area. I also wonder how it would have been had the heatsink and blower been designed as a vertical cyli...